Karnataka election result 2018 LIVE updates: With Narendra Modi wave still
riding high, trends show BJP snatching another state from Congress.

Karnataka Election Result LIVE updates: With Modi wave still riding high, the
Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) on Tuesday forged ahead leading in 121 seats while the
ruling Congress was leading in 59 constituencies in the Karnataka Assembly polls,
according to trends. JD(S) was leading in forty seats by 11.00 am. Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah was ahead in the Badami assembly constituency in north Karnataka, but
trailing in Chamundeshwari in his home town Mysuru by over 11,000 votes against his
main rival G T Deve Gowda of the JD(S). The BJP's chief ministerial candidate, B S
Yeddyurappa, was ahead in Shikaripura, and JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy
in Ramanagara. Prominent among those trailing include ministers Ramamnatha Rai
from Bantwal and H C Mahadevappa from T Narasipura, the sources said. Senior BJP
leader K S Eshwarappa from Shivamogga, senior most candidate in the electoral fray
and minister Kagodu Timmappa from Sagara and the chief minister's son, Yatindra, from
Varuna were also leading over their rivals.
Karnataka election has been billed as the biggest political battle of 2018. The Bharatiya
Janata Party 's(BJP's) bid to reclaim the state has faced its toughest challenge from one
man - chief minister Siddaramaiah, who looks to beat incumbency. Who will Karnataka
pick? The voters have decided and the entire nation will know the Karnataka election
2018 result today.
Meanwhile, four of the seven polling agencies predicted in their exit polls that the BJP
would emerge the single-largest party today. While most exit polls predicted a hung
Assembly with the BJP ahead, two said the BJP would either come very close to or cross
the halfway mark of 112 seats, while the India Today-Axis exit poll said the Congress
might bag a majority. All exit polls gave the H D Deve Gowda led Janata Dal (Secular)
nearly two dozen seats or more, which could make it the kingmaker in case of a hung
Assembly.